Printer&#39;s furniture.



Patented Sept. 4, I900.

W. G. SLAUSUN. PRINTERS FURNITURE.

(Application filed Nov. 10, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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nrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

W'ILLIAM G. SLAUSON, OF OLEAN, NEWV YORK.

PRINTERAS. FURNITURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 657,254, dated September 4, 1900.

Application filed November 10,1899. Serial No. 736,516. (No model.)

To (all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM G. SLAUSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Olean, in the county of Oattaraugus and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printers Furniture, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to combination or looking furniture for printers use.

The object of the invention is to produce sets of metallic furniture which shall be adjustable .to many positions in filling out or completing forms, so that a large assortment of sizes maybe made from a small number of furniture-pieces.

The furniture is made from metal and may be a cheap cast-metal, iron being satisfactory. 13y preference a set of the furniture will consist of four pieces, of which two or three may be used in combination. Such combination, by changing one piece for another, will give a range of adaptability covering a very wide range. V

Figure 1 illustrates a plan of a combination of three of my furniture-pieces. Fig. 2 is a plan of a combination of two pieces, and Fig. 3 a combination of two pieces in the extreme position, one of the pieces being different from the piece of Fig. 2. Fig. 4. is a broken detail section showing engagement of the stops or locking-bolt with the rack. Fig. 5 is a broken perspective of one piece of furniture. Fig. 6 is an edge view showing the wrench-sockets.

. The furniture consists of separate metallic pieces, less than type high, and preferably made with marginal ribs and open centers, so that a minimum weight of-niaterial may be required, as usual with printers furniture. All the pieces of a set are beveled or inclined on at least one side and one piece of the combination set is beveled on both sides. As many as half the pieces have rack-teeth on one edge, but are preferably plane on the other, and enough of the pieces are provided with holding-pawls to secure a lock for each combination. The pieces of each set are of the same length, but of different widths. The sets are made of different lengths and may be combined as sets when large blank spaces are, to be filled. For instance, one set of fifteen or sixteen inches length of furniture may be combined with two sets of eightinch furniture to fill a blank space of sixteen or more inches in length and wider than can be filled by the long furniture. Permutations and combinations will be readily arranged by a person accustomed to impose printing-forms.

Let A, B, O, and BB represent the metal pieces of an ordinary combination set involving this invention. Piece A has the sidesA A A extending in the lines of a rectangle. The fourth side is beveled and provided with teeth A, extending in vertical direction from edge to edge. Piece B has a plane side B and ends B and B at right angles thereto. On the beveled side 13* the f urniture-piece has lockin g-catehes I) Z), held in mortises or sockets in the body of the furniture and having their outer "ends beveled and normally projecting slightly beyond the plane of the inclined face, being pressed out by springs 11 after the manner of a springbolt or door catch. A loop or band b preferably of spring metal, connects the two bolt-heads and servesto draw back these bolts or catches when desirable, either by hand or the application of a lever or handle. As shown more fully in Fig. 4, the springpressed bolts or catches are not spaced the same distance apart as are the teeth A, al-= though these spring-bolts are intended to engage such teeth. By unequal spacing one of the bolts Z) orb will engage the notch between two teeth A while the other bolt is pressed back by another tooth of the rack.

By a slight shifting of one of the pieces A or pinion K may have its end inserted into' said socket R, and the teeth of said key will project far enough from the body of the furniture to engage the teeth of the adjacent toothed piece. The'piece BB is in all re spects similar to piece B, except that it is wider. The beveled sides of the pieces AB are at the same angle relatively to the straight sides. The bolts 1) b have their gripping ends beveled on one side only. Now when the pieces A and B or A and BB are assembled, as in. Fig. 2, the two pieces together form a rectangle. Should this be too small to fill the place intended, key K may be inblocks or pieces are not inseparately linked serted into socket R and turned in such direction as to move the pieces relatively to each other, and thus. bring the two broad ends nearer to each other, expanding the width of the combination-block. One or the other of the catches b b will engage a tooth on piece A and prevent a backward movement; but by drawing said catch or catches out of engagement the pieces may slide back. Itwill be understood that if the narrow ends of these two combination-pieces, are in prox imity to each other; instead of the wide ends, as in Fig. 3, the width of the space occupied by the two pieces will be but little more than the greatest width of the widest one. By having two pieces B BB substantially alike except as to width a considerable latitude of provision for adjustment is provided. The other piece of the combination set is indicated at O. This has both edges at an inclination with the ends. One of the edges is provided with rack-teeth A. The other edge is provided with holding-catches I) Z). The edge provided with holding-catches has also key-seat R. In fact, all the pieces which have.

recesses B have them on both faces, so that whichever side up the piece may be it will have a recess in position to receive a lockingwrench, and as the teeth A extend from top to bottom of the furniture the wrench or key K can be applied so as to engage such teeth whichever side .of the furniture is uppermost. It is advisable that the recess R do not extend entirely through the rib at the edge of the furniture-piece to possibly injure the imposing-stone. The double tapered piece C can be applied between two of the shaped piece with generally vertical edges 3 and having a recess near one edge, of nearly pieces having a single taper or incline, the toothed edge of the piece 0 engaging the catch on a plane edge piece as BB and the catch or bolts engaging the toothed edge of piece A. Thus a rectangle is formed of three pieces, which may be expanded or contracted by endwise movement of any one of the three pieces.

may serve to expand the devices for the purpose of filling more space, or such movement may serve as a means of looking up forms.

It is desirable to have one edge of the f urniture-pieces a plane face, so that longitudinal movement may be not too difficult when that face bears against the chase or against formplates.

It will be seen that a rectangle may be formed from two of the pieces having each a single inclined edge or from ;three pieces, v two of which have each a single inclined September 15, 1895.

numerous uses of printing-offices has been effectively demonstrated.

It must be understood that these furniture or connected together, but one piece may be lifted out of a type-form and another ofa ditferent size put in its place whenever there is no edge pressure on the pieces.

In this respect the furniture is quite different from several well-known quoins having a somewhat-similar general appearance except as to size, but in which the members constituting the quoin must at all times maintain the same relative position-as, for instance, in the quoin patented to McOonnel, No. 326,438,

\Vhat I claim is 1. A set of furniture for printers use consistingessentially of disconnected pieces free for arrangement in various relative positions,

,to prevent endwise, movement, whereby the 5 combined width of the adjusted set may be maintained until the pieces are unlocked, substantially as described.

2. A combination printers furniture consisting of separate and unattached pieces, one of said pieces being wedge-shaped and 1 having a rack on one edge, another piece bein-g wed ge-shaped and provided with a springbolt projecting at one edge in position to engage said rack on the companion piece, said 5 spring-bolt having one beveled face, whereby I the two pieces may be looked as against longitudinal movement, but either may be lifted 5 free from the, 0ther,substantially as described.

3. In, printers furniture a metallic wedgesemicylindrical form, serving as a wrenchsocket, and having a spring-bolt with beveled end projecting from its side, the piece being adapted for manipulation independently, but ispecially intended for use in combination with other pieces, substantially as described. The endwise movement of the furniture j 4. In printersfurniture, a metallic piece I having two mortises containing spring-actu .ated bolts, the ends of said bolts being con- I in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM G. SLAUS ON.

Witnesses:

WALTER. G. RADCLIFFE, H. H. RADCLIFFE. 

